Latin American Identity
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It is easier to define a national identity than a Latin American identity.
When the history of Latin America is reduced to the study of the Inca or the Aztec, it negates the identity and the historical complexities of the many cultures in the region. The dominant European culture has imposed values and judgments on the brown and black races often diminishing their cultures as being "backward cultures". This inevitably creates a low self-esteem and sense of inferiority in them because they are defined by the dominant culture, rather than in terms of their own historical and cultural perspectives (Gómez Pardo, 230). In chapter 5, Latin Americans Define Themselves of the book entitled Latin America Conflict and Creation, E. Bradford Burns gives the perspectives of several Latin American intellectuals, from 1856 to 1989, with regards to a Latin American quest for defining an identity of their own. They agree about the importance for Latin Americans to define their own identity by embracing their Indian, black, and European ancestry but they also perceive the United States as a threat. No one had a greater impact on Mexican and Latin American psyche as did Jose Vasconcelos by elevating the Indian identity to the level of its European counterpart. Nevertheless, it seems that Uruguayan writer, Eduardo Galeano's argument prevails because the ideals of most Latin American intellectuals have remain a utopia since race still determines social and cultural standing with whites at the top.
Burns, Bradford E. Latin America. Conflict and Creation. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
Prentice Hall, 1993.
Gomez Pardo, Rafael. El Ahogado Mas Hermoso Del Mundo: Un Simbolo De Lo Que Somos y De Lo Que No Somos. Cuadernos De Filosofia
Latinoamericana.Vol. 27, No. 95 Universidad de Santo Tomas, Colombia,
(2006).
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